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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index 5791b23..5911aaa 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -1,16 +1,24 @@ -quick setup ------------ +pv-grub-menu +------------ - * run update-menu-lst which will create a menu.lst for you if one does not - exist or manually create one, and skip to step 4 +At its installation, this package runs 'update-menu-lst' to create a 'menu.lst' +file in '/boot/grub/' in order to make the system bootable by PV-GRUB. It also +runs 'update-menu-lst' each time a kernel package is installed or removed. - * edit /boot/grub/menu.lst - or if /boot is a separate partition - edit /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst +'update-menu-lst' is derived from 'update-grub' in the grub-legacy package and +has some options in common, in particular 'groot' and 'kopt' that can be edited +in '/boot/grub/menu.lst' and applied by running 'update-menu-lst' again. See +the manual page update-menu-lst(8) for details. - and change groot, and kopt to whatever settings you need. - modify anything else in the menu.lst you want, +This package does not contain GRUB and does not modify the master boot record. +Install grub-pc or one of the other GRUB 2 binary packages if you need this. - re-run update-grub to update the lines for each kernel to those - that you specified with groot and kopt +This package conflicts with grub-legacy as both packages modify +'/boot/grub/menu.lst'. Systems where grub-legacy is installed do not need +pv-grub-menu. +This package is for systems where GRUB can not or should not be installed, but +that need an up-to-date '/boot/grub/menu.lst' file. It provides and conflicts +with Ubuntu's grub-legacy-ec2 package, that it aims to replace. + + -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:44:22 +0900 |